Douglas Adams
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- Writer
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42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas Of Douglas Adams review
What is also evident is that while he put so much of himself in his writing that it was easy to feel that we all knew Douglas Adams, beyond the famous words was also the impact he had on people, his wide readership and the many he interacted with directly, the friends he hosted at his home, encouraged in their own artistic endeavours, offered support to, gave connections from his own eclectic black book of useful contacts, a man who were he still here would understand how we feel in a changing and seemingly directionless world and would see no contradiction in celebrating a ghastly prediction come true while simultaneously offering a guiding hand and a shoulder to cry on through dark and difficult times.
Michael Flett, GeekChocolate, 8th September 202342: The Wildly Improbable Ideas Of Douglas Adams review
After Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams died in 2001 at the unfairly young age of 49, his family donated 67 boxes of his archives - notebooks, letters, scripts and speeches - to his old Cambridge college, St John's. From that treasure trove, documentary-maker and Adams fan Kevin Jon Davies has extracted this fascinating and lavishly presented collection of material that throws new light on the ever-inventive comic genius.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 5th September 2023Unbound achieves first Sunday Times number one bestseller with Douglas Adams book
Unbound has achieved its first ever number one Sunday Times bestseller with 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas Of Douglas Adams edited by Kevin Jon Davies.
Sian Bayley, The Bookseller, 4th September 2023How Douglas Adams's career was saved by last-ditch BBC offer to write for iconic show
Self-critical and often fearing his efforts were "utter rubbish", the sci-fi writer he had nearly given up after years of dreaming of working on Doctor Who scripts.
Louise Lazell, The Mirror, 19th August 2023Hitchhiker's Guide limited edition novel collection published
A limited edition, deluxe box set of all five Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy novels is being published for Towel Day 2023.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd May 2023Salvaging Starship Titanic
Can a new radio adaptation save the sci-fi game sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy?
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 18th December 2021The 42nd anniversary of the H2G2 novel
It was 42 years ago this month where the literary world learned the answer to life, the universe and everything. While the face of radio comedy changed forever back in March of 1978, it was October of 1979 that Douglas Adams unleashed The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, as a book, on the world.
Bill Young, Tellyspotting, 20th October 2021Happy Towel Day: celebrating the life of Douglas Adams
Happy Towel Day - yes, 25 May is a day to remember Douglas Adams, and had been commemorated annually since his passing on 11 May 2001.
Tony Jones, Cult Box, 25th May 2021International Towel Day 2021 - the 20th anniversary
Earlier this month, H2G2 fans marked the 20th anniversary since the all-too-early passing of creator/writer, Douglas Adams. Festivities continue around the world throughout the month of May which will also mark also the 20th anniversary of the first Towel Day which took place just two weeks after Adams passed away from a heart attack on May 11, 2001.
Bill Young, Tellyspotting, 25th May 2021Douglas Adams archive book to be published
A book featuring extracts from Hitchhiker's Guide creator Douglas Adams' archive is to be published.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd March 2021